Being an Anthology of the Further Legends of Ellicott City’s Blink Man
Edited by K. Patrick Glover
In January 2019, I watched and reviewed Erik Kristopher Meyers’ Butterfly Kisses (2018). Myers’ documentary/horror became a fresh approach to the kind of horror that has faced many ups and downs over the decades. His fresh approach proved that the genre is not dead yet and that, in the right hands, it still has a lot of scares to offer.
The mystery of Peeping Tom/Blink Man and the Ilchester Tunnel has become an urban legend. From Hagerstown to Ellicott City, his story has ‘travelled’ through hearsay, horrifically realistic imagination and utterly nonsensical descriptions. Regardless, when K. Patrick Glover met one day Myers, the two of them gathered some incredibly descriptive authors and put these stories together. Will you tell which story is based on (un)substantial evidence and which isn’t? No. Will you recognise the truth when you read it? No, you will not. The real question is, does it matter? No, it does not. Because you will allow yourself to live the suffering, horror, and agony these (non)fictional people endured. ‘In the Blink of an Eye’ is the blurry line between two worlds. One of them is real, and one isn’t. Turn off the lights while reading, and your inevitable human curiosity in finding out which one will inadvertently become a descent to folkloric paranoia.
Highly recommended for horror fans and not only as it generates a lot more questions than it aims to answer. ‘Blink Man’, the legend under the microscope, turns the tables, and the observer becomes the observee. Humans turn into a case study as he reveals the murky and obscure ways the human mind creates realities. Man’s unprecedented archetypal fears take over reason and interpret what we sense – or we truly believe we sense – through an unbeknownst to us chaotic, ghastly prism.
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